PROJECT TITLE :

Continuum Robots for Medical Applications: A Survey

ABSTRACT:

During this paper, we have a tendency to describe the state of the art in continuum robot manipulators and systems supposed for application to interventional drugs. Inspired by biological trunks, tentacles, and snakes, continuum robot styles can traverse confined areas, manipulate objects in advanced environments, and conform to curvilinear methods in space. In addition, several designs supply inherent structural compliance and easy miniaturization. When decades of pioneering research, a bunch of styles have now been investigated and have demonstrated capabilities beyond the scope of typical rigid-link robots. Recently, we have seen increasing efforts aimed at leveraging these qualities to enhance the frontiers of minimally invasive surgical interventions. Many concepts have now been commercialized, that are inspiring and enabling a current paradigm shift in surgical approaches toward flexible access routes, e.g., through natural orifices such as the nose. During this paper, we offer an summary of the present state of this field from the perspectives of each robotics science and medical applications. We tend to discuss relevant analysis in style, modeling, management, and sensing for continuum manipulators, and we tend to highlight how this work is being employed to build robotic systems for specific surgical procedures. We have a tendency to give perspective for the longer term by discussing current limitations, open questions, and challenges.